On the Fredholm indices of associated systems of Wiener-Hopf equations (Q5939751)

The authors study the connection between the Fredholm indices \(\text{Ind }W(A)\) and \(\text{Ind }W(\overline A)\). In this paper \(A\) is a matrix function of the class \(L^\infty_{n\times n}(\mathbb{R})\) generating a Wiener-Hopf integral operator on \(L^2_n(\mathbb{R}_+)\). The associated Wiener-Hopf integral operator is the operator \(W(\overline A)\) with \(\overline A(x):= A(-x)\). The main result of the paper is following: \[ |\text{Ind }W(A)+ \text{Ind }W(\overline A)|\leq d(n-1), \] for \(A\) having at most a finite number \(d\) of discontinuities that \(W(A)\) is Fredholm of index \(k\) and \(W(\overline A)\) is Fredholm of index \(v\) satisfies the condition \(|k+v|\leq d(n- 1)\).